Approximate Unit Schedules

  • Physics Unit 1 - One Dimensional Motion
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

AUG - 11
12
13 - Teacher Retreat
14 - Orientation
15 - 1st Day of School.
R/P + Syllabus
Sign Lab Safety Contract
18 - Complete
R//P and syllabus
HW: One pgraph on motion of the olympics
HW: Measure light pole height
19 - Begin Unit 1
The Vector Nature of Physics
HW: p. 34, 1-7
20 - Velocity, Speed,
Distance, & Displacement
21 - Speed vs. Velocity

HW: p. 55, 1-5
22 - Acceleration
HW: p. 75, 1, 3-5
25 - Graphical Analysis of Motion
HW: Graph WS
26 - Graph Match Acitivity
HW: Graph analysis
27 - The Big 4
HW: 1-3, 5
Big 4 Problems.doc
28 - The Big 4
HW: 6-9
Big 4 Problems.doc
29 - The Big 4
HW: p. 75, 2, 6-8, 10
SEPT 1 - Labor Day
NO SCHOOL
2 - Review for Unit 1 Test
HW: Study
3 - Unit 1 Test
4 - Lab Procedure
Prep Work
5 - Galileo Lab
HW: Lab Reports due Tuesday
8 - Gravity
9 - Reaction Time Lab
10 - Unit 1 Performance
Assessment Practice

11 - Unit 1 Performance
Assessment

12 - Mythbusters
Penny Drop
  • Physics Unit 2 - Two Dimensional Motion
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Sept 15 - Begin Unit 2
Resolving Vectors
HW: WS 3B, 1-3
16 - Adding and
subtracting vectors
HW: Prob Set, 1 & 2
17 - Vector Treasure
Hunt
HW: none
18 - Vector Treasure
Hunt
HW: complete treasure
hunt if not done in class
19 - Vector Independence
HW: Prob Set #3
p. 142, 6 & 8

22 - 2D exampl
problems
HW: WS 3D, 1-4
23 - Projectile
Motion Lab #1
Horizontal Velocity
24 - Projectile
Motion Lab #1
Horizontal Velocity
HW: Compose Lab Report
25 - Wrap up Lab and
Review for Unit 2 Test
HW: Lab Report &
study
26 - Unit 2 Test - 2D
Kinematics
HW: Lab Report

29 - Angled Projectile
Motion
HW: prob sets
30 - Projectile
Motion Lab #2
Maximum Range
HW: Compose Lab Report
Oct 1 - Projectile
Motion Lab #2
Maximum Range
HW: Compose Lab Report
2 - Unit 2 Performance
Assessment - Target
Challenge
HW: Lab Report
3 - No School
Curriculum Day

  • Physics Unit 3 - Newton's Laws & Force
  • Physics Unit 4 - Uniform Circular Motion & Universal Gravitation
  • Physics Unit 5 - Conservation Laws
  • Physics Unit 6 - Simple Harmonic Motion & Fluids
  • Physics Unit 7 - Waves & Sound
  • Physics Unit 8 - Geometric Optics
  • Physics Unit 9 - Wave Optics
  • Physics Unit 10 - Electricity & Circuits